Aug
31
Keith Olbermann’s answer to Rumsfeld - a much more eloquent argument than my own. Nicely done, and thank you!
Feeling morally, intellectually confused?
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.
Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarkable speech to the American […]
Aug
30
Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, Ms. Rice:
We are America’s citizens. We are not defeatists. We are not pessimists. We are not appeasers.
I don’t hear anyone arguing that the militant anti-USA movements in the middle east are not a threat.
Not “Dean democrats,” not anyone.
Many of us simply have come to believe that you back-alley players […]
Aug
29
I’ve just noticed the “aboutus.org” wiki. It looks as though they are trying to put together information on every domain.
AboutUs is a fully editable wiki, a type of Web site, that has been prepopulated with information about several million websites. Enter a domain name in the search box (for example: “Yahoo.com” or “AboutUs.org”) and see […]
Aug
27
I was looking at my dissertation today, wondering if I can yet make a readable book out of it. Now that I’ve got a little distance from what was an agonizing process (at least until the last bit, when I actually started enjoying it), it seems better than I thought at the time. Today I’m […]
Aug
27
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Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme - Week 186
Visit :: Friends, Console, Sojourn, Ghosts, Avenge, Death
Cake :: Sitting, Birthday, Snake, Tartlette
Period :: Blood, Moon, Cycle, Time
Triumphant :: Dominion, Victory, Pridefulness, Pagentry
Screen :: Movie, Computer, Interpretive, Projection, Mirror
Neglect :: Heartless, Irresponsible, of Children, Sloth
Guitar :: Gently Weeps, Spaceship Lion, Metal, […]
Aug
21
The FDA has approved a spray-on cocktail of six viruses for ready-to-eat meat (they say “meat and poultry,” but last time I checked, meat from chickens and turkeys was still meat).
The purified bacteriophages are designed to eat up the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium.
The bacterium can cause a serious infection called listeriosis, primarily in pregnant women, […]
Aug
21
Well, I’ve been resisting this for some time, but I’ve got a few friends at MySpace so I feel as though I should join up and participate, at least in a nominal way.
My blog at MySpace will just be to collect little bits of quotations.
My URL
http://www.myspace.com/virushead
My Blog URL
http://blog.myspace.com/virushead